Q'beyan to New York .. he is looking for clues. A crim has been committed, but the evidence has become foggy with time, so he is .

resigned when the trail leads hi back to New York. Each day, he take a camera on to the streets, back to the corner where he first began to notice that something was wrong, capturing images that otherwise might escape his distracted eye. These images, an the other evidence he finds each day,

he sends home, hoping the perspective of distance will help others, and hi self, pit! the pieces together..."

THE GRAND and Bowery a Contemporary Art Space No in Manuka is the type of exhib tion that should be visited several times. -

Not because it is deep and difficult to take in, but because it is a.cumul tivc exhibition that will shift an change - perhaps unpredictably.

Neil Roberts is probably underg ing extreme culture shock, having left his native Queanbeyan to venture into .

the filthy streets of New York where h has taken up residence at the Visual Arts/Craft Board's (Australia Council)

Greene Street Studio for three months.

While in New York Neil will send series of mailbags which will be progressively installed in the gallery. Th contents of the mailbags will act as type of diary - evidence of the pr cess of relocation and the assimilation of shifts and influences. Small work in terms .of scale and intent, possibly disjointed or reflecting difficulties, i ages and objects culled from the street of New York.

The exhibition will culminate in closing function on Saturday, July 1 a .1 lam, but can't be seen in it's various stages in the meantime.